NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | STANDARDS | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON

ACL_ENTRIES(3)          BSD Library Functions Manual          ACL_ENTRIES(3)

NAME         top

     acl_entries — return the number of entries in an ACL

LIBRARY         top

     Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).

SYNOPSIS         top

     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <acl/libacl.h>
     int
     acl_entries(acl_t acl);

DESCRIPTION         top

     The acl_entries() function returns the number of ACL entries that are
     contained in the ACL referred to by the argument acl.

RETURN VALUE         top

     The acl_entries() function returns the number of entries in acl if suc‐
     cessful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable
     errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS         top

     If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_entries() function
     returns -1 and sets errno to the corresponding value:
     [EINVAL]           The argument acl is not a valid pointer to an ACL.

STANDARDS         top

     This is a non-portable, Linux specific extension to the ACL
     manipulation functions defined in IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17
     (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned).

SEE ALSO         top

     acl(5)

AUTHOR         top

     Written by Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at>.

COLOPHON         top

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Linux ACL                      March 23, 2002                      Linux ACL